First Full Week of Grading

The first full week of 2010 was a little better than the first half week. The results still aren't there but I felt I did better in my areas to be graded than I did before. I am getting to be much more comfortable playing 6max again instead of all heads up play.

• Mental Game: B-
• Studying: B
• Technical Play: B+
• Focus: B+

I had one day where I dropped almost 6 BIs in various suckouts and coolers which got under my skin quite a bit. It wasn't a good game for my mental game and as mentioned before, anytime my mental game isn't there, then it follows that my focus was lost as well. For studying, I responded to some HHs on leggopoker and I watched 2 videos. I will watch some more videos this week and really think about the differences between the professionals plays and my plays like I did last week. It was really cool when I watched JamesMa's 200nl video where we differed on literally only about 2 plays throughout the entire video. Bet sizing was close enough to be considered the same on almost every single hand. That gave me a huge boost of confidence. The reasons for the plays were identical as well, so that gave me a boost of confidence I really needed. I expect to have an even better week this upcoming week with respect to target areas I am attempting to improve upon.

Also, I have family in town this weekend, so my expectations on getting hands in this week will decrease. I do expect to get some in during the week though and maybe can sneak in a few if people head out for a while (think my sister, my wife, sister's friend, and sister-in-law may all go out for a night and I will watch my little boy, meaning I am free at around 8:30 to do whatever. Maybe play some poker, maybe watch a movie).We'll see what happens.